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In reply to the discussion: IT'S. THE. GUNS. [View all]Eleanors38
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If we are "less free," it is due to far greater power than some armed celebrity-seeker. Try extremist efforts to curb a woman's right to choose, aggressive actions toward transgender people, a political party that seems more loudly afraid of Bullies than one which does anything about them, and a flourishing corporate state which no institution wishes to challenge
Most people have guns primarily for SD, but in addition many keep them to thwart tyrrany of any sort, however unlikely. This was the stand of liberal leader Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey. By your OWN WORDS you characterize many millions of Americans "mentally unfit." Don't run for office. You won't win.
Cuba, Algeria, Indo-China, Vietnam, the Arab Spring, and others are just a few examples of how insurgencies, for ill or good, succeeded with the use of small arms against a vastly better-armed opponent. Get back to history class, but take notes instead of nodding off and "dreaming." Had we had more of that a half-century ago maybe we as a nation could have averted or at least hastened our exit from Vietnam. But by your reckoning, here we are, doomed to repeat our history.